64 bit?

Newegg has a nice sale on Vista home premium 64 bit System Builders. So I was thinking of upgrading from my 32 bit. But I was wondering how much of a performance increase would there be on my system?

EVGA 8800gt 512mb

AMD Athlon x2 5600+ 2.38Ghz

4gb Kingston HyperX 240-pin DDR2 1066

Biostar TF7050-M2

Realtek RTL8168B/8111B PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet NIC

 I am using a Standard Compaq Keyboard and a Dynex DX-WOM2 Mouse

Thank you for any help you can provide, I would like to upgrade to 64 bit but I am not sure if it is worth it. Also on a side note, I can install the System Builders Edition after formating my hdd right?

Newegg has a nice sale on Vista home premium 64 bit System Builders. So I was thinking of upgrading from my 32 bit. But I was wondering how much of a performance increase would there be on my system?

EVGA 8800gt 512mb

AMD Athlon x2 5600+ 2.38Ghz

4gb Kingston HyperX 240-pin DDR2 1066

Biostar TF7050-M2

Realtek RTL8168B/8111B PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet NIC

 I am using a Standard Compaq Keyboard and a Dynex DX-WOM2 Mouse

Thank you for any help you can provide, I would like to upgrade to 64 bit but I am not sure if it is worth it. Also on a side note, I can install the System Builders Edition after formating my hdd right?

Ghost_loy

The cool thing about your case is that you will actually get a boost in RAM by moving to 64 bit.

A 32 OS can only detect about 3.5GB(or something like that) .

A 64 Bit OS will  detect all 4gb, and more .

Another 500mb of ram (if thats the case) will probably barely even be noticable, but still its better to be running 64-bit with 4gb, but you have the downside of slightly more compatibility issues with 64-bit. Captain__Tripps

[QUOTE="Captain__Tripps"]Another 500mb of ram (if thats the case) will probably barely even be noticable, but still its better to be running 64-bit with 4gb, but you have the downside of slightly more compatibility issues with 64-bit. mattpunkgd

4gbs of ram - the 512 from the video card leaves him with 3.5gb of random access memory because 512mb is taken by the video. So if you don't wanna specify the video ram and ram on the mobo he has 4gbs in use. Upgrading to vista 64bit he would gain the 512mb missing from the mobo ram taken up by the vram.[QUOTE="mattpunkgd"][QUOTE="Captain__Tripps"]Another 500mb of ram (if thats the case) will probably barely even be noticable, but still its better to be running 64-bit with 4gb, but you have the downside of slightly more compatibility issues with 64-bit. LibertySaint

Can't you just call MS and pay a little bit to get a 64-bit key? I thought once you had the disc you didn't need to buy it all over again for 64 bit support...............X360PS3AMD05

Another 500mb of ram (if thats the case) will probably barely even be noticable, but still its better to be running 64-bit with 4gb, but you have the downside of slightly more compatibility issues with 64-bit. Captain__Tripps

[QUOTE="Captain__Tripps"]Another 500mb of ram (if thats the case) will probably barely even be noticable, but still its better to be running 64-bit with 4gb, but you have the downside of slightly more compatibility issues with 64-bit. knut-am

unless he has an OEM verison. U can't use the oem key if its 32bit to get 64 bit.... dang retailers.LibertySaint

[QUOTE="LibertySaint"]unless he has an OEM verison. U can't use the oem key if its 32bit to get 64 bit.... dang retailers.Captain__Tripps

[QUOTE="knut-am"]"but you have the downside of slightly more compatibility issues with 64-bit." that part isnt all that correct :). my experience after nearly 2 years with those versions of windows are basically that whatever work with the 32 bit version will work on the 64 bit. differences in hardware setups and such has a much greater compability issue, but that is unavoidable in the PC world. :) peace man, no fight. Captain__Tripps